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Black Museum to Defile Lee Statue
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the December 8th Radio Renaissance.
Once again, one of your regular hosts is on a much-deserved vacation this week, so we'll be flying solo.
This is your host, your solo host for the week, Paul Kersey.
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This is Paul Kersey, and we're going to start with the story straight out of Richmond, Virginia.
Actually, this is out of Charlotte.
We'll start off with the one in Charlottesville, then we'll jump over to Richmond.
All you have to do is go down 64 to get from Charlottesville to the capital of the Well, it was the capital of the Confederacy, but all remnants of that are coming down as the big story this week was despite a proposal of $100,000 to buy the Robert E. Lee statue that was just toppled there in Charlottesville, the City Council voted unanimously 4-0 to award the monument to an African-American history museum so they can melt it down.
I'll just go ahead and read that one more time.
Let that sink in.
A Robert E. Lee statue that stood for decades just brought down recently instead of putting in the museum, which is what we constantly hear politicians say.
In fact, the governor-elect of Virginia Basically said, Mr. Junkin, he basically said, hey, these things belong in a museum.
You hear that all the time.
People say, put them in a museum, put them in a museum.
But that's a slippery slope.
Because what we see in Charlottesville is the monument came down.
And now it's going to be melted down.
So let's let's look at what actually is going on here.
This is from the Washington Post.
The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee will soon be melted down and turned into a new piece of public artwork following a vote by city lawmakers on Tuesday, December 7th, 2021.
Progress baby!
Since taking it down over the summer, the City has been searching for a new owner for the 1,100 pound monument which it served as the focal point of the 2017 Unite the Right rally.
Six proposals were submitted by art groups, historical societies, and individuals.
Who offered to pay as much as $100,000 for the Lee sculpture and a toppled monument of fellow General Stonewall Jackson.
You'd think that would be an enticing offer for the City of Charlottesville, but nope!
The City of Charlottesville City Council voted 4-0 to hand the bronze statue over to the only local bidder, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which is a black-led museum whose, quote, swords-into-plowshares idea would repurpose the medal entirely.
Andrea Douglas, the museum's executive director, said in a video the project aims to, quote, create something that transforms what once was toxic in our public space into something beautiful and more reflective of our entire community's social values, end quote.
Artists will consult Charlottesville residents in the coming months, including in forums early next year, to determine what the public art might end up looking like.
Spoiler alert, it's going to be unbelievably anti-white.
Douglas said she hopes that collaborative process can also provide a framework for other communities debating what to do with toppled Confederate monuments.
Don't put them in a museum, just melt them down and make an anti-white monument out of it.
Uh, you know, the movement to take down the statue began only in 2015 with a petition crafted by Zianna Bryant.
I'm sure the statue could actually be made in her honor.
Uh, who was then a local high school student.
City lawmakers responded by voting to remove the statue in February 2017.
Again, we know that a number of more than 30 groups or individuals expressed interest in taking ownership of the two Confederate generals.
Stonewall Jackson statue also came down.
A contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, which is organizing an exhibit on the lost cause of Confederate monuments, that was one of the bids.
Others came from a historical site in Haunted House in Jackson's West Virginia hometown and a foundation that operates a museum in Russell County, the ancestral home of Confederate General Jeb Stewart.
Jeb Stewart also had a statue of his come down on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia back in 2020.
One Texas man sent a handwritten letter to the city offering to put the Lee and Jackson statues on his 2,700-acre
property.
City lawmakers repeatedly said that neither statue should end up somewhere it would be used to celebrate the lost
cause.
So it's just going to be melted down instead.
To the victors go the spoils.
You need to understand the victors make the rules and as we can see there is no leniency, there is no mercy, there is no absolving from white guilt.
The statue must be melted down.
The statue must be remade in the image of something Wonderful and worthwhile and 2020 America.
So whatever that means and our nation continually dominated by a revolving concept of critical race theory and which is nothing more than anti-white racial hate or the LGBTQ insert vowel consonant to the end of that always augmenting concept.
That's that's that's where we are.
So, you know, I'd love to hear what you guys think That monument should be melted down into of course.
I think it should be it should be immediately it should be immediately seized by the state of Virginia and And placed somewhere Place of honor.
It's it's you know, this is this is the kind of thing you see During a Bolshevik revolution the statues of the past removed those we once venerated now become those we must And that doesn't bode well for those who have been conquered.
I mean, this is ritualistic humiliation at its finest.
Speaking of ritualistic humiliation, another thing we talked about, kind of teased, what's happening in Richmond.
Governor Northam has decided that they're going to remove the pedestal where the Robert E. Lee statue, which was put up in 1890, They're in Richmond.
The pedestal's gotta come down now, too.
He announced Sunday that his administration will remove an enormous pedestal that until earlier this year held a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in downtown Richmond.
The announcement marks a reversal in course from September when the statue was removed, but the Democrat governor said The 40-foot stall pedestal currently covered in anti-white Black Lives Matter-supporting graffiti would stay.
His administration also announced plans to transfer ownership of the Grassy Island in the middle of the traffic circle where the statue was located to the city of Richmond.
Of course, this land was donated to the state of Virginia to perpetually guard the statue that a Supreme Court decision by the Virginia Supreme Court shot down, which brought about the Dismantling of the statue earlier in 2021 and of course it was cut in half and I think it's in some I think a women's penitentiary.
I mean the other monuments to Stonewall Jackson and Jeff Stewart and Jefferson Davis that were on Monument Avenue in Richmond.
Those all I believe are in the Richmond dump.
You can look it up, but pretty sure that's the truth.
The move comes about a month before Northam leaves office and Republican-elect governor Glenn Youngkin who has expressed less enthusiasm about the statue's removal is sworn in.
The deed of the land which is given to the Commonwealth in the late 19th century was a quest from the city so the parcel could come under local control.
State ownership has created logistic headaches with maintenance and security.
They expect the project to be substantially complete by December 31st.
The Lee Statue is a one-of-a-kind bronze equestrian piece installed in 1890.
It was perched in the middle of a traffic circle.
Part of a collection of Confederate statuary along Richmond's historic Monument Avenue.
It's just tragic to think that all those are gone.
It was ordered removed in the summer of 2020 amid the nationwide protest.
Surrounding the death of George Floyd, the Jefferson Davis statue was vandalized and actually brought down in June of 2020.
You can actually read a fantastic article or a visual pictorial that Jared Taylor did, my colleague, where he actually went to Richmond and toured Monument Avenue and took pictures of the destruction, the devastation.
It was as if a war zone had erupted across Richmond and it was, you know, Western
civilization was on the losing side.
Youngkin has said that the statue belongs in a museum or a battlefield as an opportunity to
teach about history and he has criticized the graffiti and violence that went along
with many protests over Confederate monuments.
So, thank you.
So, I mean, this is just one of those stories.
So many people have fond memories of growing up in Richmond and Christmases on Monument Avenue and now this beautiful pedestal is about to be all gone and that's where we are.
I'm surprised that some local art museum hasn't tried to bid on getting the pedestal and keeping it up.
As a celebration of the dispossession and the displacement of the statues and actually celebrating the statues should have stayed up.
I mean it was a monument to Black Lives Matter.
It was a monument to the racial reckoning of 2020.
It was a monument to the It was a monument to, let's just face it, the dismantling of so-called, quote, white supremacy, white privilege, systemic racism, implicit bias, redlining, and the celebration of the Confederacy, Jim Crow, etc, etc.
But they're going to take it down anyways because there can be no There can be no remnant left of what was, and it's a very sad thing because Monument Avenue was once one of America's, if not, yeah, I'd go that, I'd go so far to say one of the world's great streets.
And these monuments were absolutely beautiful, and like this Washington Post, or like this story says, The Lee statue was truly one of a kind and now it has been cut in two after standing since 1890.
But that is where we are as we come to the end of 2021.
Who knows what 2022 will bring us?
as we come to the end of 2021.
Who knows what 2022 will bring us.
So, as we move along, let's take a look at a story that has generated massive amounts of controversy.
This is from the USA Today, and unfortunately it's behind a paywall.
I did find it over at Yahoo!
Headline was great, and it had four writers.
I'll tell you the headline first, then we'll move on to those writers.
Is math education racist?
Debate rages over changes to how U.S.
teaches the subject.
Four people contributed to this article.
Aaron Richards, Emily Blotch, Gary Stern, Christine Fernando.
Here we go.
Algebra classes taught by Nadine Ebrey look different than the ones you probably took in school.
Students practice equations through singing, dancing, and drawing.
Activities are sculpted around their hobbies and interests.
Anime, gaming, Minecraft.
Problem solving is a team sport, rather than an individual sprint to the right answer.
Ibri, a math teacher and tech specialist for Duval County Schools in Florida, is using new techniques designed to promote equity.
If kids of color, girls, and low-income students engage, they'll be more likely to pursue high-level math classes, the argument goes, that can open the doors to competitive colleges and lucrative careers.
After Ibri switched to Emphasizing real-world problems and collaboration, her students, most of whom are black, improved their scores on Florida's math exam in 2020-2021, even with 1 in 3 learning from home.
Hmm, maybe that means someone else is taking their test, if those tests are being taken from home.
That's not mentioned in the story.
Just throwing that out there.
But other bolder recommendations to make math more inclusive are blowing up the world of mathematics education.
Schools are collapsing math tracks to put all kids of abilities in the same classes and adding data science courses that carry the same prestige as calculus.
Let me rephrase that again.
Let me just rephrase.
Let me put that again in simple terms here.
Schools are collapsing math tracks to put kids of all abilities in the same classes and adding data science courses that carry the same prestige as calculus.
Long seen as a gateway to career in STEM fields, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and elite colleges.
Another heated issue, the extent to which math education should include real-world problems involving racial and social inequities.
The Pythagorean Theory, gone!
Let's talk about racial and social inequities in math.
Fairly or not, the bait has landed in the murky soup of critical race theory digressions.
No, I'm pretty sure that's fair.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that is at the heart of critical race theory.
Pretty sure that's at the heart of the anti-white racial hate that permeates every facet of American life, especially K-12 education, where our children are taught to hate themselves, their past, their present, and their future, unless they submit to the inculcation of the BLM.
Mindset.
Changes have pitted mathematicians and math educators against each other and sparked criticism from affluent parents upset by the elimination of gifted tracks.
They've caused upheaval in one state, and that would be California, as professors, parents, and teachers spar over proposed changes to the state's K-12 math framework.
We all know why that probably is, because, well, less than 25% of K-12 students in public schools are white, heavily Asian, You can look at the bell curve to find out how well Asians do at mathematics versus Hispanics and Black students.
Not really much need to go much further.
You're listening to Radio Renaissance Podcast.
Pretty sure you know what I'm trying to get at.
Quote, we're not changing or lowering standards.
We're outlining how inequitable the teaching of math is right now, said Joe Bowler, a Stanford University math education professor, at the forefront of the changes.
Opponents say the new movement effectively dumbs down math education.
Lower achieving students often have deficits that begin in the early grades and that's where the focus and energy
should go says Wayne Bishop a mathematics professor at Cal State University, LA
Many low-income students and kids of color aren't doing well in math and haven't for a long time national test
score show So, I'll see you next time.
Obviously those national test scores means that these tests have implicit bias and they are fountains of white privilege and they're culturally biased.
I think that was the word of the 1990s in this movie called Blue Chip that Shaquille O'Neal starred in, one of his first movies.
He actually refused to take the SAT because he called it culturally biased.
That was the big word, the big buzzword.
In the late 80s, early 90s.
That's been, that's been removed now.
It's just racial bias, implicit bias.
So that translates to big divides later in lucrative STEM fields.
Science, technology, engineering, and math, where 70% of the workers are white and 65% are male, according to the survey by the American Enterprise Institute.
Pandemic has only made things worse.
A new national report shows third grade math scores dropped significantly during the pandemic.
Only 70% of third graders at majority white schools performed on grade level in math this fall.
Let me read that again.
Only 17% of third graders at majority white schools performed on grade level in math this fall.
Just 4% of students attending majority black schools did the same, according to a report by Curriculum Associates.
So, making math more relevant by using real-life problems around social inequities has struck a nerve, as Republicans accuse teachers of overemphasizing race and racism in subjects such as American history.
Why social inequity and race inequity should even come up In mathematics, when we should be learning about addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, algebra, calculus, trigonometry, etc, etc.
And, you know, basic accounting principles, financial principles.
All fives, but all falls to the sword when we're dealing with the 2020-21 commandment of now must make everything about.
Social justice, social inequity, and combating racial justice, or combating for racial justice and against racial inequities, and racial iniquities.
Proponents of the framework, changes in California, on the other hand, have encouraged working equity discussions in the math class.
Quote, this program is quite a comedown for math, from an objective academic discipline to a tool for political activism, said Williamson Evers.
Former Republican Department of Education official in a Wall Street opinion piece, he suggested California's proposal means 2 plus 2 no longer equals 4.
Very George Orwellian, very Eric Blair when it comes to that pronouncement, but it's totally true.
This is where we're headed.
Just getting a glimpse of it right now.
Maybe it's happening too fast.
I mean, again, this was the type of stuff that compelled people all throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia to stand up and say, no mas, as they learned about What was actually happening in their children's K-12 schools and they elected Governor to be Governor-elect Yunkin.
We'll see if they actually do anything about this, but this is this is just where we are as our society continues to say diversity is more important than standards and that's far more important than trying to Maintain what we once had because maintaining what we once had is just perpetuating a society and a system that ensured these injustices were baked into the the bedrock of our civilization.
So that's why that's all come down.
That's why standards have to go because we refuse to talk about simply Racial differences in intelligence.
And again, nobody is guaranteed equal outcome.
Everybody should be guaranteed equal education and educational opportunities, but individuals should see their merit drive them further as they go for greater educational opportunities than other people.
But of course, that type of conversation is anathema to our egalitarian elite's ears.
Moving along, what do we got here?
We've got a story that I actually like because it's one of those stories that it's a good news story.
Former Illinois State University football coach who removed Black Lives Matter poster alleges violation of First Amendment rights in a lawsuit.
This is from December 3rd from the Chicago Tribune.
Kurt Beathard, a former assistant football coach for the Illinois State University, is suing the school's head football coach And his former athletic director claiming his First Amendment rights were violated after he replaced a Black Lives Matter poster from his office door with another poster.
The suit, filed Tuesday in U.S.
District Court, alleges First Amendment retaliation and viewpoint discrimination against Beathard, who was the offensive coordinator for ISU.
He was dismissed on September 2, 2020, by head coach Brock Spack.
And the decision to terminate was authorized by then-athletic director Larry Lyons, according to the suit.
He alleges that the BLM poster was placed on his door while he was on leave during late spring and most of the summer of 2020 following the death of his wife from breast cancer.
When he returned, he removed the Black Lives Matter poster and replaced it with a poster he had written that read, quote, All lives matter to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, end quote, the suit says.
The sign was left up for less than two weeks, but he took it down before he was fired, the suit says.
Bethard claims he was told he was fired because SPAC did not like the direction of the offense.
The lawsuit claims SPAC and Lions terminated Bethard because, quote, he did not toe the party line regarding Black Lives Matter, end quote.
Messages for SPAC seeking comment were not immediately returned.
Attempts to reach Lions were unsuccessful.
The suit states Beathard set several records and that his team achieved national ranking with his offense in 2014 and 2015, and again in 2018 and 2019, two seasons preceding the season in which he was fired.
Upon his return in August from leave, according to the suit, Beathard noticed tension on the ISU campus.
It was grappling with the high-profile police shootings of unarmed black people.
Oh God.
I'm reading from the Chicago Tribune story.
So, it was grappling with the high-profile police shootings of blacks who were engaged in very questionable behavior at the time of their death, including Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
Black Lives Matter became a movement on campus.
It's something SPAC called, quote, freaking nuts, end quote, when welcoming Beathard back to ISU, according to the lawsuit.
Act of Solidarity, according to the lawsuit, several football coaches posted BLM posters in their office door.
Bethard was away someone taped a sign to his door. He took it off immediately and put his own poster up upon returning
He led a zoom meeting with student-athletes to encourage unity
Toward the end of the meeting Lyon said all redbirds lives matter according to the lawsuit
Redbirds is a nickname of the school so let's just hope that something good happens here because
again a Colleague of Bethard shared a picture of the poster
he recently took down in response to the football players' boycotted practice, according to
So, a few days later, Beathard was fired.
As a result of the series of incidents, the lawsuit states, Beathard suffered from mental and emotional distress as well as economic damages due to the loss of income.
The director of media relations at ISU, Eric Jones, said part of the standard practice,
the university cannot provide comment on pending litigation.
Doug Sherdar, Bethard's attorney, maintains that Bethard's views should have been respected
in a public university.
There's only one reason Bethard is an offensive coordinator at ISU.
message on your door, you keep your job. If you replace it with your own message,
you're fired. That's exactly what happened. There's only one reason Bethard
is an offensive coordinator at ISU. He did not tow the party line on BLM."
Well, all I can say is much luck to you, Kurt Bethard, and from one fan of
of college football to another.
I hope you get a job again soon and you get a chance to coach again and that your lawsuit is successful against Illinois State University because this is one of those big First Amendment cases so we'll keep our eye on that one.
Moving along to Oakland.
BLM wanted us to de-police, to fund the police.
That was one of the big calls of 2020.
And we saw what happened.
We saw one of the greatest murder spikes since homicides have been tracked in the United States.
It's only increased this year throughout America's big cities.
Hint, get out of America's big cities, ladies and gentlemen.
So here's the story we have out of Oakland, California.
Oakland backtracks on cuts to police funding, votes to add officers as crime surges.
This is from KTLA, LA's very own news source.
Los Angeles is also going through a crazy spike in violent crime.
In fact, I've heard it being compared to a almost unwatchable movie, The Purge, where lawlessness is the new Everyday way of living there in what used to be a pretty placid place.
The Oakland City Council, a longtime leader in Black Lives Matter movement to cut police funding, reversed course on Tuesday, December 7th, voting to hire more officers as it grapples with a surge in homicides and gun violence.
The proposal by Mayor Libby Schaaf to add two new police academies and unfreeze positions
within the department to add 60 new officers passed with six members voting yes, one voting no,
and one abstent... and one absent...
and one abstention.
Council members ended up not voting on separate proposals to offer one-time bonuses of at least $50,000 to recruit experienced officers from other cities and at least $20,000 to Oakland residents who become police cadets.
They'll later consider hiring incentives for experienced officers.
Schaaf applauded the vote in a statement saying residents, quote, spoke up for a more comprehensive approach to public safety, one that includes prevention.
Now this is one of several politically liberal cities reversing course on public funding amid a spike in violence to the dismay of police critics who have said officers are ineffective at preventing crime and end up traumatizing residents, especially black people, those who in these cities are the predominant demographic committing the crimes.
They also said there is a staffing shortage within the police department and that officers should focus on the most serious crimes.
Of course, as a fan of Bill Bratton, broken windows policing is what you do, and then you have less crimes.
It worked in New York under Mayor Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani, and it can work in any city, but that requires actually being tough on crime as opposed to being lenient and soft on crime because if you aren't, Or if you are, you're traumatizing black residents who are committing the bulk of the crimes in these cities.
Especially Oakland.
Especially New York.
Especially Chicago.
Especially L.A.
Well, there's always a pendulum and it swings back.
Oakland goes, so goes the country, said Kat Brooks, co-founder of Oakland's Anti-Police Terror Project,
urging the council to vote down increased police staffing.
Quote, if we allow it to be demolished here, we're giving fuel for faux progressives and right wing
folks to destroy the movement across the country, end quote.
Well, there's always a pendulum and it swings back.
And let's just hope that it swings back to a point where we see some honesty
when it comes to who's committed the crime in these places.
We talked last week about a city like Durham, where in 2020, 97% of the suspects in shootings were black.
The city's a majority white.
Come on.
The only people who are committing gun crime...
are black in that city.
I'm sure the same goes for Oakland if they actually broke down the stats.
We should be calling for transparency in police, particularly in police reports, when it comes to violent crime, when it comes to the suspects, and murders, and rapes, and home invasions.
Most importantly, in fatal and non-fatal shootings.
Oakland has had 129 homicides this year, up from 109 last year.
And 78 in 2019.
Of course, we've got, as of today, 23 days to go.
The number could increase substantially.
Deaths include a toddler who was napping in a moving vehicle when he was hit by a stray bullet on an Oakland freeway, and a retired police officer who was shot while working as a security guard for a television news crew.
Both of those murders occurred in broad daylight.
The city's police force of sworn officers now stands at 676.
Dipping below a 2014 voter approved measure that required the police department to have at least 678 sworn officers.
A city of more than 400,000 people started this year with 723 sworn officers.
So yeah, you're talking about what, 6-7% drop in sworn officers since the start of 2021?
Barry Dunlan, the president of the Oakland Police Officers Association, said officers are, quote, leaving in droves for other cities and urged council members to think police rather than malign them.
Oakland has also joined other cities in diverting police from some 911 calls to reduce friction between law enforcement and minority groups.
A pilot program to use trained civilians to address complaints such as public intoxication and panhandling is scheduled to be launched next year.
With Tuesday's vote, Oakland joins other cities Like I said, with robust Black Lives Matter protests that have partially restored public safety finances in response to rising homicides, an officer exodus, and political pressure, probably a lot from the Chamber of Commerce, which, hey, if people are afraid to do
Business in the city they're going to do business elsewhere and that's going to drive down Revenue that's going to drive down profit That's going to make it so that it's getting harder and harder to pay rent for these stores or these restaurants It's gonna be harder to make payroll and it's gonna be harder to stay in business So it's gonna be interesting to see what happens with all these other cities as we start to see the pendulum swing back to a law and order concept for 2022 and Which should be a very interesting midterm election.
I don't think the Republicans deserve it.
They certainly don't deserve it in Virginia.
Basically because you're not electing someone who actually wants to win.
You need to elect people who want to win, such as those who want to melt down the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville as a way to humiliate those who once venerated it.
That is what winning looks like.
I hate to say it, ladies and gentlemen, politics is a zero-sum game and when you have a situation where Well, a monument is coming down and being melted.
That's what you call humiliation.
So, keep that in mind if you actually see some Republicans win and they want to actually do cool things like melting down statues put up to prominent leftists.
Where do we go from here?
Let's go to New York.
Let's go to New York, New York.
This is one that I won't say who I saw on Twitter put it up, Jesse Kelly, but I did.
He's one of the better Twitters to follow.
This is from the New York Post.
Man busted for assault set free allegedly beats two random New York City women, then
cut loose again.
Homeless man charged with beating a guy last year was dumped back on the street thanks
to so-called bail reform, only to allegedly pummel two women in Upper West Side attacks
Thursday and be freed again.
Daryl Johnson, a 23-year-old African-American, or as Mr.
Taylor would so eloquently call it one of our melanin-enhanced, dusky friends, left one of
his random female victims so brutally beaten that she suffered a quote, disfiguring laceration.
End quote to her face law enforcement sources told the post on Monday
Last year Johnson has more than a dozen arrests on his rap sheet dating to 2014 according to sources
Was hit with assault and harassment charges in the men's in the man's beatdown
We'll see you next time.
Allegedly, he punched his victim about the face with a closed fist multiple times, and a Harlem building, according to a court complaint.
He then allegedly, quote, used his feet to kick and stomp, quote, the man in the August 3rd 2020 attack.
But a Manhattan judge had to release him without bail because none of the charges were eligible for the restriction under revamped state laws.
Before the laws were changed, judges could use their discretion on setting bail.
That case pending, Johnson was back on the street where he allegedly approached a 50-year-old woman at Broadway and West 79th Street in Manhattan around 9.20 a.m.
Thursday, an assault of her in a quote, violent, unprovoked attack, sources say.
Race of everyone involved in these attacks, the victims, unspecified.
As stated, the victim was so brutally beaten, sources said she suffered a disfiguring laceration to her face in the attack.
Three minutes later, Johnson allegedly assaulted another woman a block away, race not described.
That incident, court records allege Johnson walked up to the 32-year-old victim, on West 80th Street and began punching her in the face, causing redness and swelling, according to the complaint.
Both women were taken to St.
Luke's Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Court Friday, Manhattan prosecutors recommended that Johnson be released under supervised monitoring for the attacks on the women, a request for the judge granted.
A rep for the DA's office said none of the charges were harsh enough to allow the judge to order Johnson held on bail.
New York Defender Services, which represent Johnson, declined to comment Monday.
So as you can see, that's just what you call life in the big city.
As you hear a lot of people say, best thing to do is get out of the cities.
Excuse me.
That's the best thing you can do, is get out of the cities.
We've got some breaking news, ladies and gentlemen, that I think you're going to love.
This is from the MSNBC News website.
Emmett Till case being closed by DOJ guarantees no one will pay for his lynching.
Justice Department's closure of Emmett Till case ends with what little hope for
justice had remained more than 65 years.
After the 1955 lynching.
For decades, if not centuries, Americans have persisted in the belief that the South is separate and distinct from the rest of the country.
Commonly held by the politics that govern the region, the atrocities that happen there, and the inadequate response to those atrocities belong to the South, and the South alone.
But the widespread racism that allowed Emmett Till's killers to escape accountability is one of the reasons we can dismiss such a belief as fantastical.
Now, I'm not going to read what actually happened to Emmett Till, but we'll just talk about what was going on.
The Justice Department on Monday closed a recent investigation into Till's lynching.
Without charging anyone, because it was harder in the 1950s and 60s to convict white people who murdered black people, the Justice Department has a cold case division.
Occasionally brought some measure of justice to killers who face juries fundamentally opposed to conviction.
In the case of Till's murderers, someone with access to military files made it even less likely that his killers would be punished.
While they were on trial on kidnapping and murder charges, someone leaked a confidential military file to the press indicating that Till's father, Louis Till, a U.S.
soldier in Italy during World War II, was hanged by the Army in 1945 for rape and murder.
The horror.
Can't believe someone would leak something about Emmett Till's dad being a rapist and a murderer who was hanged for his heinous crimes.
Now, the author of this piece said this isn't necessarily proof that Private Lewis Till was guilty.
The Army, the author of this piece writes, hanged a disproportionately high number of black servicemen on accusations of sexual misconduct.
So disproportionately high that we can have every reason to suspect that racial stereotypes about black men were driving the numbers.
The same way those stereotypes resulted in so many black bodies swinging from tree limbs.
Or, the Army, as they investigated, Rapes and sex crimes in World War II found that black individuals were collectively, disproportionately higher than white individuals to collectively commit sexual misconduct.
Meaning that they would be hanged and charged with capital punishment for their crimes.
But again, we can't have that.
There was a book actually John Edgar Wideman, who in a 2016 book, Writing to Save a Life, The Lewis Till File, he tried to cast serious doubt on Lewis Till's guilt.
He visited a section of a French cemetery reserved for executed U.S.
servicemen as he researched the book.
He found that 83 of the 96 who had been executed were black.
The U.S.
Army War College had previously published a report finding that Negro soldiers were unmoral and untruthful in addition to being careless, shiftless, irresponsible, and secretive.
We can connect that, so that's what they said, and then this author tries to obfuscate that.
This piece is really worth reading.
Again, it's by Jarvis DeBerry.
I believe he used to be with the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
And now he's an MSNBC opinion columnist.
He might still be writing there.
But that sounds like a really good book that Mr. Taylor needs to review.
So if someone wants to send that in, you can find the PO Box information.
Writing to Save a Life, the Lewis Till file.
Make sure you send that to Paul Kersey.
Get a couple copies of that.
And we'll review that at www.amren.com.
Once again, the title of that book is Writing to Save a Life, the Lewis Till file.
I'm sure you can find it at www.amazon.com.
But again, what happened was the Justice Department announcement in 2018 that they had reopened the Till case came out.
According to the memo, the Justice Department sent to Congress this file, and they were going to try and see if, hey, maybe there was some truth to the fact that we can figure out who did this.
Investigation started.
Again, this is during the Trump administration.
According to the memo, the Till case has been reopened based upon the discovery of new information.
The only publicly known new information to come from a historian, Timothy Tyson, who in his book, The Blood of Emmett Till, he quoted the star witness in the case as disavowing her testimony.
Carolyn Bryant Dunham had testified that Till grabbed her around her waist and rudely propositioned her.
But according to Tyson, she told him in an interview, quote, that part's not true.
Upon publication of Tyson's book, Donham denied having made such a confession.
Tyson maintains that she did.
The Justice Department said in a memo Monday that it was impossible to prove the woman at the center of the country's most infamous lynching.
Had ever lied to investigators.
Of course, I would argue the most famous lynching was Leo Frank.
Mary Fagan, but anyways.
From that memo, quote, what is clear from all accounts is that Donham suffered no physical harm and that Till's conduct was likely perceived by many in the white community to violate their own written code prevalent in the Jim Crow South that black men were forbidding from initiating interactions with white women.
Well, I would say that if you try and grab someone like that now, that would constitute sexual harassment.
You'd probably go to jail.
Justice Department's memo attempts to explain that there were unwritten codes in the South, complements a common explanation of Till's interaction with Donovan the Store.
Grew up in Chicago and Abisipi, did not know the rules dictated by segregation.
Thus, such speculation goes, he blithely interacted with a white woman without sufficient caution.
So there we go.
The Emmett Till case, after 55 years plus, seems to be closed by the DOJ.
So if you had that on your bingo card, congratulations.
That case is closed.
Speaking of which, we're going to move on to...
Story about how many migrants got away.
How many illegal aliens.
I believe the Israelis call them infiltrators.
Mr. Taylor and I have used that word to describe illegal aliens many times.
I think we should continue to use that word to describe illegal aliens.
So, how many infiltrators got away?
illegal aliens got away in October of 2021.
Now, mind you, we've got we still have social distancing going on.
We still have the esteemed Dr. Fauci saying, hey, make sure you get your boosters.
You probably don't want to go to Christmas vacation and see family and friends if you haven't got your got your vaccine or your third boosters.
Israel, of course, is on their fourth booster.
But this isn't a podcast about COVID-19.
This is a podcast about The national question and the racial realities governing our life.
And here we go.
100,000 illegal aliens got away since October, says a Customs and Border Protection source.
The agency recorded 47,500 gotaways during the month of October.
That's followed by an additional 52,000 sources believe the increase in November means more than
600,000 infiltrators, migrants, illegal aliens, and gotaways will be recorded
this fiscal year if the trend continues.
That, ladies and gentlemen, I believe is more than the population of Rhode Island, Delaware, Wyoming.
I mean, it's more than the population of Oakland.
I mean, geez, it's more than the population of a lot of cities.
Source says that the constant flow of illegal aliens being apprehended along the southern border impedes the agency's ability to adequately patrol miles of the border.
The absence of routine patrols is driving the gotaway numbers up there as there are no available Border Patrol agents to respond to electronic sensors, camera activations, and unmanned aerial surveillance sightings.
On average, more than 1,700 migrants avoided apprehension by the Border Patrol each day in November.
The known gotaway count is updated daily by the Border Patrol.
According to the source, the data is entered into a system of record easily accessible to agency leaders.
This metric is usually not released by the DHS to estimate, but the estimate is achieved by county illegal aliens who ultimately escape apprehension after being observed by aircraft and camera systems.
So according to the source from the CBP, Gatoway Count is usually lower than reality as the elements usually destroy the evidence of crossings after the high winds and rains.
So the number could be far, far higher as we watch our country, as Wilmot Roberts said so long ago, Called it dispossessed, I believe, was the word.
The dispossessed majority.
You wonder how.
This is one of those ways how.
Called The Great Replacement for a reason.
And this is a story that I think we'll end on.
It's a longer story, but it's one that I find interesting that you would have an individual by the name of Roger House writing an opinion piece.
Black people need a safe state in America.
Let's make it Georgia.
Black thinkers may want to weigh the merits of establishing a majority-minority state as a political base while still demanding the rights of citizenship across the land.
So here we have somebody calling for carving up the United States by racial lines so that black people can dominate the government of a state, not just a city, not just a community, not just a school board, not just a municipality, Not just Atlanta, but the entire state of Georgia.
This coming at a time where, of course, Buckhead is poised, you know, one of the affluent, tony areas of Atlanta, wants to secede from the city so they can have the tax revenue stay there, as opposed to all of Atlanta.
And they can actually have a police force that would protect the store owners, as opposed to having the Atlanta PD, which has basically said, hey, we're not even gonna have cops chase after fleeing vehicles, fleeing criminals.
So let's look at this article by Roger House.
Just a couple of the lines.
We'll read through this.
Trial of three men accused of slaying Ahmaud Arbery has black Americans walking on pins and needles once again.
Whatever the jury decides, I'm afraid, will fail to address the damning question that the tragic incident symbolizes.
How can black people ever be secure in America?
Well, considering the fact that in most major cities where there's a significant black population, almost all homicides and non-fatal shootings are black-on-black, I don't know how blacks will ever be secure when they're in communities of their own and cities that already have highly segregated areas such as Milwaukee, Louisville, Chicago, Washington DC, Baltimore, you name it.
and Atlanta.
The Aubrey Encounter is just the latest in a series of violent racial incidents that
linger in memory.
George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, and so many others.
Fatal consequences are recounted on television and social media, and trigger episodes of post-traumatic stress in the black psyche.
Add to these graphic executions the racism inherent in the criminal justice system and the increasingly unstable antics of states under the spell of Trumpism, one can wonder if it's time for Black Americans to consider establishing a base for security.
Such a conclusion runs counter to the direction of Black politics since the Supreme Court's decision in the school desegregation cases.
Nearly 70 years later, after Brown vs. Bee Board of Education, after generations of racial strife, the climate today suggests that new options may be worth pursuing.
New century black thinkers may want to weigh the merits of establishing a majority-minority state as a political base while still demanding the rights of citizenship across the land.
So, we want a state of our own, but we still want to be able to live around you, just in case the state of our own doesn't work.
Got it, Mr. House.
I do not make this suggestion lightly because I know the anxiety that self-determination schemes can trigger doesn't mean a return to separate but equal.
I'm sure that whites would be really equal in this majority-minority, black-controlled Georgia of Mr. House's fantasy.
Going back to the article, the question, however, ignores the reality that for many the separate status never ended or did so at a loss of culture.
A project to create a black majority state would be in the political and cultural interest of the race, i.e.
black people.
There are examples of, in U.S.
history, of vulnerable groups using the structure of federalism to create a safe haven state.
Most notably, the Mormons in Utah.
In fact, black pioneers resorted to the strategy when forming independent towns across the West, like Nicodemus, founded in Kansas in 1877.
The effort to gain effective political control of a state would have advantages like constitutional protections not afforded to cities.
Most importantly, the powers of the offices of Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State, the appointment of judges, and an executive check on the overreach of white state legislatures.
Who's going to have an executive check on the overreach of a majority black state legislator?
A racial state for us and not for you.
Sorry, pal.
Control of executive officers would further the development of technical experts with skills in public administration, policing and lawmaking, and the direction of the political economy.
They would have the ability to bargain with state economic interests and to generate a sustainable presence in the halls of Congress.
Today's states with demographics favorable to majority-minority voting bloc are Mississippi, Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Also, he goes back to these states and he says all these populations are over 30% or more black and have attracted new migrants in recent years.
But he says the state that he wants to focus on for political racial migration would be the Peach State, Georgia.
It teeters on the brink of black political ascendancy due to the forces of migration and organization.
An estimated 1 million blacks have migrated south from cities that they, well, the great migration of blacks didn't really do that well in Buffalo, Rochester, and Albany, and Detroit, Milwaukee, and Baltimore, and Philadelphia.
Cities aren't doing that great, but so I guess that Blacks who aren't doing well there are going to go back and see if they can do well in Georgia.
And, spoiler alert, Clayton County's majority black.
Got a lot of black elected officials.
They've got a black police chief in Victor Hill who, back in 2005, fired all the white cops when he became the first black sheriff of that county.
Had him marched out with snipers on the roof.
Clayton County is one of the worst places in Georgia, and it's had black administrators now for almost 15 years exclusively.
So, with a population of more than 10 million, about 35% black, Georgia has become a purple state with the introduction of new voters and grassroots organization.
Black Georgians have developed strong political organizations in secondary cities as well.
The number of black mayors increased from 42 to 64 in recent years.
Black mayors have assumed control of mid-sized cities like Augusta and Savannah, smaller entities like Powder Springs, Douglasville, and Fayetteville, among others.
So, basically, many black migrants in this writer's eyes bring needed skills, education, and independent sources of income.
They include retirees on pension, self-employed and remote workers, skilled tradesmen, professionals, and university students.
Yes, he's talking about getting blacks to move to Georgia to engage in the great replacement of the dwindling white majority.
base. Yes, he's talking about getting blacks to move to Georgia to engage in
the great replacement of the dwindling white majority.
Again, Georgia was 74% white in 1990, about 51-52% white in 2021. He then writes,
it could start by depicting the Peach State as a historic designation for
refugee and contemporary site for economic opportunity and cultural vitality.
So this guy writes about how, hey, the marketing could herald the state's role as an early symbol of black autonomy.
Most people know about the civil rights legacy of Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Few, though, are well of the freedom struggles of Africans in the region.
Brought to labor in rice plantations of the Charleston colony, many escaped to the coastal swamps of Georgia.
As early as 1680, it was an informal underground railroad that relied on settlements known as maroon colonies.
Uh, it's interesting I didn't even know this in 1865 Union General William Tecumseh Sherman issued field order number 15 that granted Emancipated blacks about one-third of the state the order was later overturned by President Andrew Johnson Once he assumed office after the assassination of President Lincoln
Again, could you imagine somebody arguing, hey, let's turn Idaho, let's turn, let's turn Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana, and Northern California into a white ethnic state.
Immediately, that person would be canceled, and how dare you argue that such some, that would be something good that white people had control of their own, their own autonomy.
Again, think back to what this guy's writing in this piece.
Quote, control of executive offices would further development of technical experts with skills in public administration and policing, and lawmaking and the direction of the political economy.
Now, what if you're talking about white people moving to a state?
Say white people wanted to move to Maine, or white people wanted to move to West Virginia, or white people wanted to move to those states that I just mentioned, Pacific Northwest, or to Vermont, or to New Hampshire, or to Rhode Island, or to Started moving to Florida en masse.
And they said, we're gonna take over the local governments and we're gonna have a government that reflected our interests.
I mean, again, this is something that basically every facet of American life is presented against.
And this piece, which was published in the Daily Beast under the headline, Black People Need a Safe State in America, Let's Make it Georgia.
This piece was published by Roger House.
I'm sorry, it was written by Roger House.
It was published on November 21st, 2021.
It ends with this.
It ends with this.
This is where I'll leave it.
While the concerns are all serious, over time the advantages of establishing a majority-minority state could come to outweigh any potential disadvantages.
What remains urgent is that the Ahmaud Arbery outrage is the latest testament to the intransigence of white supremacy and the need for a safe state.
I wish there was a peaceful separation.
It would be great.
The American Colonization Society was an organization that was funded and staffed and had membership of pretty much all the great American luminaries from both the South and the North.
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, You name it, they were probably in it.
And they realized that this whole concept wasn't going to work, of racial equality.
Notes of Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson knew it, too.
Thomas Jefferson knew it, too.
And Roger House gets it.
But at the same time, he wants to have access to be able to still have citizenship if all the African Americans move to Georgia and make it their own state.
They still want to have access and citizenship throughout the country.
Can't have it both ways.
You can't advocate for racial separation while still having and clinging to some citizenship with the rest of the country in case your little scheme goes south.
No pun intended.
Because we know what happened in a place like Detroit.
Detroit, it's white population is increasing now.
After being governed by blacks exclusively roughly since 1973.
Of course they have a white mayor and you've got Dan Gilbert, the CEO of Rocket Mortgage, I'm sorry, Quicken Loans, who's come in there and basically redeveloped the city and turned it into a place where I think his corporate headquarters is located.
And it's, you know, it's a security lockdown zone so you can try and get gentrifiers to move in.
But anyways, the most important thing to talk about now is Our podcast has come to an end, and we wish everyone out there a splendid week.
Next week, we will have the return of Mr. Taylor, so your regular co-hosts will be back in full force.
And until then, we hope you and your loved ones have an outstanding week as you get ready for Christmas 2021 and the end of 2021.
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